Child Care
We suggest:
- Children thrive best in healthy and stable families.
- Child care is the care of the child, no matter who provides that care.
- Public policy on childcare should
- place the child’s wellbeing first,
- recognize that children and families have diverse needs and situations, and
- be equitable and flexible to accommodate the various childcare options that families may choose to meet their needs.
Supporting Research
Start Here
January 21, 2019
Avoiding the social and economic pitfalls of "universal" child care.
Andrea Mrozek,
Peter Jon Mitchell,
Brian Dijkema
May 6, 2021
The federal budget of 2021 offers national daycare at a cost of $30 billion over five years, with an annual cost of $9.2 billion after that. This sounds like a lot of funding, but is it enough?
This research report offers a detailed assessment of the real cost of national daycare and the amounts that provincial governments will realistically be responsible for contributing once the federal funding is spent.
Peter Jon Mitchell,
Andrea Mrozek
April 7, 2021
Strong, stable families are irreplaceable and are foundational to a healthy society. Good family policy can also enhance family well-being by addressing the diverse needs of families and their most vulnerable members, children.
Explorations
June 22, 2021
Join us as we Exit COVID: Toward what matters most.
Winnie Lui,
Todd Martin
November 13, 2020
Winnie Lui reports on research by Trinity Western sociologist Todd Martin revealing that around the world even the hardships of the pandemic have become sources of family strength.
Peter Stockland,
Peter Jon Mitchell
September 17, 2019
Peter Jon Mitchell, acting director of Cardus Family, details a new report showing how federal and provincial child care policies distort the way Canadians care for their kids.
Media Coverage
March 16, 2023
"Nearly one in five Canadian children witness the separation or dissolution of their parents’ relationship by age 18," writes Peter Jon Mitchell, family program director at Cardus. "Despite this high percentage, little public attention is given to family structure and child well-being as a result of family breakdown."
Photo by Benjamin Manley on Unsplash
March 14, 2023
"If every woman in Canada had exactly the number of children that she says she personally desires, Canada would have replacement rate fertility," Lyman Stone, a demographer and Cardus senior fellow, tells the Hub Dialogues podcast. "So you can either listen to what women say they want or you can think you know better than them."
Photo by Juan Encalada on Unsplash
March 5, 2023
"This research suggests that Canadian fertility isn’t low just due to various direct financial barriers," writes Lyman Stone, a demographer and Cardus senior fellow. "It’s low because the entire modern life sequence in industrialized countries is becoming hostile to the biological timeline of fertility."
Photo by Christian Bowen on Unsplash
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